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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of four final clubs' decisions to tighten guest policies, it seems that the administration has shaped the state of the campus social scene far more directly than Lewis' claim implies...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Future of Social Life Debated by College | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

...wake of four final clubs' decisions to tighten guest policies, it seems that the administration has shaped the state of the campus social scene far more directly than Lewis' claim implies...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles and Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Officials, Students Debate Social Scene | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

Harvard's defense began to tighten up, allowing B.C. past the blue line just twice in numbers-down situations...

Author: By Maisa A. Badawy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Loses Beanpot Consolation Game to B.C. | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

...politics. In the '80s liberal advocacy for the homeless was of a piece with Democratic outrage at Reagan Administration policies toward the poor. But the homeless issue also splintered urban liberalism, sending some working- and middle-class voters into the arms of Republicans who vowed to curtail entitlements and tighten the screws on vagrancy. To survive, Democrats revised their image as the party of the dispossessed by acceding to welfare reform, cutting aid to the homeless and courting the middle class. As liberals drifted toward the margins of the political landscape, so did the homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Gone, but Forgotten? | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Eucharist, or a child before its mother. Love is a sacrament of which neither man is worthy. Henrik and Tomas are really complementary halves of one weak man: the Bergman man. Henrik tastes the truth as if it were a bitter plum, and the corners of his mouth tighten in rage and impotence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cries and Whispers | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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